At first I was looking at reducing mobile phone contract, sky once contracts are up etc. But then i see posts of other people reducing their bills only for the IVA repayments to go up anyway?
So what i'm saying is, is there any point of trying to now reduce my monthly outgoings further while in my IVA only to have my payments go up at review?

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No. Those allowances are built into your I&E budget. If reduce them youre IVa payment may go up. You wont see a saving or extra in your pocket, and then the bill will go up and youll be worse off as unlikely will reduce the iva payment.
We didnt reduce anything-if anything everything went up during our iva but payment never went down! Try and make savings on non-essential stuff to put a bit aside if things do go up but pointless reducing mobile/tvonce I&E is set up.

I'm not planning on increasing anything like that. Just seems a bit harsh that if you save yourself X amount a month for it just to be added on at review

Really no harsher than your creditors having to get back a fraction of what they lent you in good faith. The object of an IVA is to allow you to pay back as much as possible whilst still being able to survive, not to get away with paying as little as possible.

Agree. If you can save a few pennies from your allowances then do so and put that away for a rainy day. You can also do online surveys for vouchers for Christmas and Birthdays.

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